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Gerard Sweeney
Apr 23, 2012, 1:48:48 AM4/23/12
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Getting down with the 82 crew On 23/04/2012 02:56, Froot Bat wrote:
> Just threw out tons and tons and tons (a lot) of games a month or two
> ago actually, since there's no likelyhood of playing them again,
> especially not with emulators. Pity really, because a lot of pocket
> money was spent on them, they were in good nick and some of them were
> nicely boxed, with booklets/novellas and such.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ([THWACK!] Ed) ... You could have
donated them to the Tape Preservation chaps at WoS.
> Anyone know of a Spectrum emulator that isn't a pain in the arse to
> type with using a PC keyboard, in case I ever get the urge to PLOT and
> DRAW stuff one day?
ZX SPIN should do nicely. Or you could use BASin which is designed
specifically for folk wanting to do programming with handy things like
copy/paste.
> comp.sys.sinclair added.
Erm - "liked". Or something. As it should be :)
Toodle-pip!
Gerard
--
Gerard Sweeney
Hackers Anonymous/Team Amiga
http://fly.to/ha3 and http://www.the-tipshop.co.uk
This week I mapped and gapped the requirements to consolidate
everything into a program of work to maximize synergy capture
and optimize our resource utilization. If any of that sounded
like work, I'll do some more of it next week.
(Wally, dilbert.com, 11 June 07)
> Just threw out tons and tons and tons (a lot) of games a month or two
> ago actually, since there's no likelyhood of playing them again,
> especially not with emulators. Pity really, because a lot of pocket
> money was spent on them, they were in good nick and some of them were
> nicely boxed, with booklets/novellas and such.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ([THWACK!] Ed) ... You could have
donated them to the Tape Preservation chaps at WoS.
> Anyone know of a Spectrum emulator that isn't a pain in the arse to
> type with using a PC keyboard, in case I ever get the urge to PLOT and
> DRAW stuff one day?
ZX SPIN should do nicely. Or you could use BASin which is designed
specifically for folk wanting to do programming with handy things like
copy/paste.
> comp.sys.sinclair added.
Erm - "liked". Or something. As it should be :)
Toodle-pip!
Gerard
--
Gerard Sweeney
Hackers Anonymous/Team Amiga
http://fly.to/ha3 and http://www.the-tipshop.co.uk
This week I mapped and gapped the requirements to consolidate
everything into a program of work to maximize synergy capture
and optimize our resource utilization. If any of that sounded
like work, I'll do some more of it next week.
(Wally, dilbert.com, 11 June 07)
Dry Gulch Pete
Apr 23, 2012, 2:09:25 AM4/23/12
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On Apr 23, 2:56 am, Froot Bat <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:02:32 -0700 (PDT), Dry Gulch Pete
>
> <pacif...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ZX+Spectrum&ct=stgeorge12-hp&oi=ddl...
>
> Nice of them to finally mark a genuinely important and revolutionary
> historical event (along with some bloke on a horse). But given the
> effort they put in for rubbish like Pac Man they could have at least
> changed their logo to an emulator, or some levels of Manic Miner.
>
> >OMG my nephew had one. You could get 32K or 64K.
>
> 16k or 48k. I still have my (16k) Spectrum, heavily used, worn rubber
> keys and taped-up adapter but still working, and a (non-working, I
> think) Spectrum 128k.
can't get Robin Hood out of the dungeon!
> Pity really, because a lot of pocket
> money was spent on them, they were in good nick and some of them were
> nicely boxed, with booklets/novellas and such.
>
> A booklet I still have is the 'ZX Spectrum Introduction' that came
> with the computer. Page 17, "Simple programming":
>
> 10 LET b$="What is your age? "
> 20 LET a$="Your age is "
> 30 INPUT (b$);age
> 40 PRINT a$;age
>
> 30! The Speccy, not me.
At work I made a clock in BASIC that chimed, lol - I was supposed to
be programming other stuff.
> Still have the thicker, ring bound "BASIC programming" book too.
Interesting.
--
DGP
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:02:32 -0700 (PDT), Dry Gulch Pete
>
> <pacif...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ZX+Spectrum&ct=stgeorge12-hp&oi=ddl...
>
> Nice of them to finally mark a genuinely important and revolutionary
> historical event (along with some bloke on a horse). But given the
> effort they put in for rubbish like Pac Man they could have at least
> changed their logo to an emulator, or some levels of Manic Miner.
>
> >OMG my nephew had one. You could get 32K or 64K.
>
> 16k or 48k. I still have my (16k) Spectrum, heavily used, worn rubber
> keys and taped-up adapter but still working, and a (non-working, I
> think) Spectrum 128k.
>
> Just threw out tons and tons and tons (a lot) of games a month or two
> ago actually, since there's no likelyhood of playing them again,
> especially not with emulators.
I've got a Commodore-64 Web.it from 1999 with an emulator and I still
> Just threw out tons and tons and tons (a lot) of games a month or two
> ago actually, since there's no likelyhood of playing them again,
> especially not with emulators.
can't get Robin Hood out of the dungeon!
> Pity really, because a lot of pocket
> money was spent on them, they were in good nick and some of them were
> nicely boxed, with booklets/novellas and such.
>
> with the computer. Page 17, "Simple programming":
>
> 10 LET b$="What is your age? "
> 20 LET a$="Your age is "
> 30 INPUT (b$);age
> 40 PRINT a$;age
>
> 30! The Speccy, not me.
At work I made a clock in BASIC that chimed, lol - I was supposed to
be programming other stuff.
> Still have the thicker, ring bound "BASIC programming" book too.
> Anyone know of a Spectrum emulator that isn't a pain in the arse to
> type with using a PC keyboard, in case I ever get the urge to PLOT and
> DRAW stuff one day?
>
> comp.sys.sinclair added.
> type with using a PC keyboard, in case I ever get the urge to PLOT and
> DRAW stuff one day?
>
Interesting.
--
DGP
GordonD
Apr 23, 2012, 5:16:25 AM4/23/12
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"Froot Bat" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>
>>https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ZX+Spectrum&ct=stgeorge12-hp&oi=ddle&psj=1
all Spectrum computers (deliberately phrased that way to avoid having to
decide what the plural is!) were identical inside but the ones marketed as
16k had part of the memory disabled. But they printed a lengthy machine code
program which they said would temporarily unlock that section of RAM. I did
have a 48k machine but was bored one day so typed in the program. And when I
ran it, it displayed "April Fool!" in huge letters!
--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland
"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."
news:4f94b6e9$0$29259$8a66...@news.ak47.org...
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:02:32 -0700 (PDT), Dry Gulch Pete
> <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
>>https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ZX+Spectrum&ct=stgeorge12-hp&oi=ddle&psj=1
>
> Nice of them to finally mark a genuinely important and revolutionary
> historical event (along with some bloke on a horse). But given the
> effort they put in for rubbish like Pac Man they could have at least
> changed their logo to an emulator, or some levels of Manic Miner.
>
>>OMG my nephew had one. You could get 32K or 64K.
>
> 16k or 48k. I still have my (16k) Spectrum, heavily used, worn rubber
> keys and taped-up adapter but still working, and a (non-working, I
> think) Spectrum 128k.
I remember one of the Speccy mags printed an article which explained that
> Nice of them to finally mark a genuinely important and revolutionary
> historical event (along with some bloke on a horse). But given the
> effort they put in for rubbish like Pac Man they could have at least
> changed their logo to an emulator, or some levels of Manic Miner.
>
>>OMG my nephew had one. You could get 32K or 64K.
>
> 16k or 48k. I still have my (16k) Spectrum, heavily used, worn rubber
> keys and taped-up adapter but still working, and a (non-working, I
> think) Spectrum 128k.
all Spectrum computers (deliberately phrased that way to avoid having to
decide what the plural is!) were identical inside but the ones marketed as
16k had part of the memory disabled. But they printed a lengthy machine code
program which they said would temporarily unlock that section of RAM. I did
have a 48k machine but was bored one day so typed in the program. And when I
ran it, it displayed "April Fool!" in huge letters!
--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland
"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."
Paul E Collins
Apr 23, 2012, 5:34:37 AM4/23/12
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:56:59 +0100, Froot Bat <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> Nice of them to finally mark a genuinely important and revolutionary
> historical event (along with some bloke on a horse).
Is he slaying a Dragon 32?
> Nice of them to finally mark a genuinely important and revolutionary
> historical event (along with some bloke on a horse).
Eq.
Gerard Sweeney
Apr 23, 2012, 4:11:04 PM4/23/12
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As part of his interview for "Speccy: On the road again" (Coming soon to
(What a worthwhile contribution. Ed)
Toodle-pip!
Gerard
--
Gerard Sweeney
Hackers Anonymous/Team Amiga
http://fly.to/ha3 and http://www.the-tipshop.co.uk
AJ: Whatever did we do before digital cameras?
Mike: Probably only took sensible photos.
(userfriendly.org, 08/12/04)
Living TV), On 23/04/2012 10:34, Paul E Collins wrote:
> Is he slaying a Dragon 32?
Zing!
> Is he slaying a Dragon 32?
(What a worthwhile contribution. Ed)
Toodle-pip!
Gerard
--
Gerard Sweeney
Hackers Anonymous/Team Amiga
http://fly.to/ha3 and http://www.the-tipshop.co.uk
Mike: Probably only took sensible photos.
(userfriendly.org, 08/12/04)
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G Daeb
Apr 27, 2012, 3:42:28 PM4/27/12
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On Apr 23, 2:56 am, Froot Bat <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:02:32 -0700 (PDT), Dry Gulch Pete
>
> <pacif...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
> >https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ZX+Spectrum&ct=stgeorge12-hp&oi=ddl...
>
> Nice of them to finally mark a genuinely important and revolutionary
> Nice of them to finally mark a genuinely important and revolutionary
> historical event (along with some bloke on a horse). But given the
> effort they put in for rubbish like Pac Man they could have at least
> changed their logo to an emulator, or some levels of Manic Miner.
>
> >OMG my nephew had one. You could get 32K or 64K.
>
> 16k or 48k. I still have my (16k) Spectrum, heavily used, worn rubber
> keys and taped-up adapter but still working, and a (non-working, I
> think) Spectrum 128k.
>
> effort they put in for rubbish like Pac Man they could have at least
> changed their logo to an emulator, or some levels of Manic Miner.
>
> >OMG my nephew had one. You could get 32K or 64K.
>
> 16k or 48k. I still have my (16k) Spectrum, heavily used, worn rubber
> keys and taped-up adapter but still working, and a (non-working, I
> think) Spectrum 128k.
>
> Just threw out tons and tons and tons (a lot) of games a month or two
> ago actually, since there's no likelyhood of playing them again,
> especially not with emulators. Pity really, because a lot of pocket
> ago actually, since there's no likelyhood of playing them again,
> money was spent on them, they were in good nick and some of them were
> nicely boxed, with booklets/novellas and such.
>
> A booklet I still have is the 'ZX Spectrum Introduction' that came
> with the computer. Page 17, "Simple programming":
>
> 10 LET b$="What is your age? "
> 20 LET a$="Your age is "
> 30 INPUT (b$);age
> 40 PRINT a$;age
>
> 30! The Speccy, not me.
>
> nicely boxed, with booklets/novellas and such.
>
> A booklet I still have is the 'ZX Spectrum Introduction' that came
> with the computer. Page 17, "Simple programming":
>
> 10 LET b$="What is your age? "
> 20 LET a$="Your age is "
> 30 INPUT (b$);age
> 40 PRINT a$;age
>
> 30! The Speccy, not me.
>
> Still have the thicker, ring bound "BASIC programming" book too.
> Anyone know of a Spectrum emulator that isn't a pain in the arse to
> type with using a PC keyboard, in case I ever get the urge to PLOT and
> DRAW stuff one day?
>
> comp.sys.sinclair added.
Is it possible that any emulators wirtten in AppleScript
> Anyone know of a Spectrum emulator that isn't a pain in the arse to
> type with using a PC keyboard, in case I ever get the urge to PLOT and
> DRAW stuff one day?
>
> comp.sys.sinclair added.
can be extended to use the iPad screen along with the
original syntax texts added to the keys (maybe a floating
template would work).
G DAEB
COPYRIGHT (C) 2012 SIPSTON
--
G Daeb
Apr 27, 2012, 3:46:47 PM4/27/12
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On Apr 23, 10:16 am, "GordonD" <g.da...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> "Froot Bat" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
>
> news:4f94b6e9$0$29259$8a66...@news.ak47.org...
>
> > On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:02:32 -0700 (PDT), Dry Gulch Pete
> > <pacif...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> "Froot Bat" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
>
> news:4f94b6e9$0$29259$8a66...@news.ak47.org...
>
> > On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:02:32 -0700 (PDT), Dry Gulch Pete
>
> >>https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ZX+Spectrum&ct=stgeorge12-hp&oi=ddl...
>
> > Nice of them to finally mark a genuinely important and revolutionary
> > historical event (along with some bloke on a horse). But given the
> > effort they put in for rubbish like Pac Man they could have at least
> > changed their logo to an emulator, or some levels of Manic Miner.
>
> >>OMG my nephew had one. You could get 32K or 64K.
Could you expand the the Vic20 - whose brains shuffled
> > Nice of them to finally mark a genuinely important and revolutionary
> > historical event (along with some bloke on a horse). But given the
> > effort they put in for rubbish like Pac Man they could have at least
> > changed their logo to an emulator, or some levels of Manic Miner.
>
> >>OMG my nephew had one. You could get 32K or 64K.
off this mortal coil the other week to 32K? And then the
Commodore 64 came along, with sprites?
DRAGONS - made in Wales - were 32K and, later, 64K
and could be used to make crude audio samples among
other things.
People complain that SPECTRUMs took ages to load
games, but gamers I work with complain they never have
time to roll a smoke with the consoles they use.
> > 16k or 48k. I still have my (16k) Spectrum, heavily used, worn rubber
> > keys and taped-up adapter but still working, and a (non-working, I
> > think) Spectrum 128k.
>
> I remember one of the Speccy mags printed an article which explained that
> all Spectrum computers (deliberately phrased that way to avoid having to
> decide what the plural is!) were identical inside but the ones marketed as
> 16k had part of the memory disabled. But they printed a lengthy machine code
> program which they said would temporarily unlock that section of RAM. I did
> have a 48k machine but was bored one day so typed in the program. And when I
> ran it, it displayed "April Fool!" in huge letters!
> --
> Gordon Davie
> Edinburgh, Scotland
>
> "Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."
G Daeb
Apr 27, 2012, 3:48:27 PM4/27/12
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On Apr 23, 9:11 pm, Gerard Sweeney <gerardNO.Spamswee...@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
> (What a worthwhile contribution. Ed)
>
> Toodle-pip!
> Gerard
>
> --
> Gerard Sweeney
> Hackers Anonymous/Team Amigahttp://fly.to/ha3andhttp://www.the-tipshop.co.uk
wrote:
> As part of his interview for "Speccy: On the road again" (Coming soon to
> Living TV), On 23/04/2012 10:34, Paul E Collins wrote:
>
> > Is he slaying a Dragon 32?
>
> Zing!
Or was that the sound of a C5 being crushed under hooves?
> Living TV), On 23/04/2012 10:34, Paul E Collins wrote:
>
> > Is he slaying a Dragon 32?
>
> Zing!
> (What a worthwhile contribution. Ed)
>
> Toodle-pip!
> Gerard
>
> --
> Gerard Sweeney
>
> AJ: Whatever did we do before digital cameras?
> Mike: Probably only took sensible photos.
> (userfriendly.org, 08/12/04)
> AJ: Whatever did we do before digital cameras?
> Mike: Probably only took sensible photos.
> (userfriendly.org, 08/12/04)
rogerjowett
May 18, 2012, 8:12:32 AM5/18/12
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On Apr 23, 6:48 am, Gerard Sweeney <gerardNO.Spamswee...@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
wrote:
> Getting down with the 82 crew On 23/04/2012 02:56, Froot Bat wrote:
>
> > Just threw out tons and tons and tons (a lot) of games a month or two
> > ago actually, since there's no likelyhood of playing them again,
> > especially not with emulators. Pity really, because a lot of pocket
> > money was spent on them, they were in good nick and some of them were
> > nicely boxed, with booklets/novellas and such.
>
> Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ([THWACK!] Ed) ... You could have
> donated them to the Tape Preservation chaps at WoS.
>
> > Anyone know of a Spectrum emulator that isn't a pain in the arse to
> > type with using a PC keyboard, in case I ever get the urge to PLOT and
> > DRAW stuff one day?
>
> ZX SPIN should do nicely. Or you could use BASin which is designed
> specifically for folk wanting to do programming with handy things like
> copy/paste.
>
> > comp.sys.sinclair added.
>
> Erm - "liked". Or something. As it should be :)
>
> Toodle-pip!
> Gerard
>
> --
> Gerard Sweeney
> Hackers Anonymous/Team Amigahttp://fly.to/ha3andhttp://www.the-tipshop.co.uk
>
> > Just threw out tons and tons and tons (a lot) of games a month or two
> > ago actually, since there's no likelyhood of playing them again,
> > especially not with emulators. Pity really, because a lot of pocket
> > money was spent on them, they were in good nick and some of them were
> > nicely boxed, with booklets/novellas and such.
>
> Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ([THWACK!] Ed) ... You could have
> donated them to the Tape Preservation chaps at WoS.
>
> > Anyone know of a Spectrum emulator that isn't a pain in the arse to
> > type with using a PC keyboard, in case I ever get the urge to PLOT and
> > DRAW stuff one day?
>
> ZX SPIN should do nicely. Or you could use BASin which is designed
> specifically for folk wanting to do programming with handy things like
> copy/paste.
>
> > comp.sys.sinclair added.
>
> Erm - "liked". Or something. As it should be :)
>
> Toodle-pip!
> Gerard
>
> --
> Gerard Sweeney
>
> This week I mapped and gapped the requirements to consolidate
> everything into a program of work to maximize synergy capture
> and optimize our resource utilization. If any of that sounded
> like work, I'll do some more of it next week.
> (Wally, dilbert.com, 11 June 07)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc4Xoz75yHI
> This week I mapped and gapped the requirements to consolidate
> everything into a program of work to maximize synergy capture
> and optimize our resource utilization. If any of that sounded
> like work, I'll do some more of it next week.
> (Wally, dilbert.com, 11 June 07)
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